Rethink Internet of Things

Published 4th May 2018

AI feeds booming scientific wellness sector, as well as its hype

Even without AI, Scientific Wellness has long been a booming business – one often mired in controversy. It has been derided on the one hand as a first world luxury, while also being welcomed as a major extension of healthcare by helping people to stop becoming ill in the first place. It is a very broad sector as can be seen by considering the highly diverse applications it embodies, as well as the colossal market predictions. According to the Global Wellness Institute (GWI), a non-profit industry body, the global wellness market grew 10.6% to $3.72 trillion from 2013 to 2015, the latest year for which data is available, over a period when the global economy shrank 3.6 percent. Not surprisingly,…